Elementary Geography, for Primary Classes (Classic Reprint)

CoFTR iGHT 1868, by Charles Scribner Co. Copyright 1875, byS cribner, Armstrong Co. Copyright 1879, by Charles Scribnbr sS ons. fHAXS fEHK lD TO MI tVAKO CO llCQC LII ilL ll DEC 21930 SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS. The Elbmentary Gbooraphy belongs to the same grade of schools with the Primary or I rU rodticH on to theS tudy of Geographyy published in 1866. The distinction between the two books is this. The Introduction is simply an iU ttatrative manual, to be read and talked about, to accompany and direct oral instruction. I ts main purpose is to fill the mind with a series of vivid pictures of nature, and thus prepare the way for intelligent study in future; while at the same time, it impresses upon the memory most firmly and clearly, those geographical facts and ideas appropriate to the age of the pupils. The Elbmentary Geography is a class-book for study and recitation containing simply that nhich should be firmly fixed upon the memory and omitting all merely illustrative description; with the addition of some matter concerning the maps, c,, supposed, in the use of the I ntroduction, to be given by oral instruction. It is prepared with reference to those schools in which, by reason of their organization, the more effective method of oral instruction is not possible. Many teachers have found the Primary or Introduction very valuable as a reading-book for young classes; and it may not be out of place to suggest that it might profitably be so used, in case it has not already been read, by classes studying theE lementary Geography. lit. the choice of matter for theE lementary Geography, attention is confined chiefly to our own country and those countries most intimately connected with ours either by commercial or other intercourse; this matter being that which is of greatest value to such pupils as shall receive no farther instruction in the subject Exceptions to t
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